In 2012, the number of deaths due to AIDS has reached 36,000 people, including 158.25 million children under the age of 18 (UNAIDS website, nd). According to data from the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the HIV prevalence rate in the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen from 4% in 2009 to 8% in 2012. They have linked this to the national youth screening campaign and the HIV / AIDS exposition to help understand the risks. Because of lack of strength and inevitable sexual contact (rape and domestic violence), epidemics are becoming more feminine ("HIV-infected women", nd).
In the past, the Democratic Republic of Congo was known as Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Republic of Congo - Leopoldville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Zaire before returning to the present state. It was named after the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the time of independence, the country was named Republic of the Congo - Leopoldville to distinguish it from the neighboring Republic of the Congo - Brazzaville. The country became a Democratic Republic of Congo under the Constitution of Lulu Boule promulgated on August 1, 1964, but on 27 October 1971 President Mobut Sesek changed its name to Zaire (the name of the Congo River in the past) Did. As part of its true initiative.
The Republic of Congo (unlike Zaire known as the Republic of the Congo, also known as Central Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, and Congo) was once a French colony in the Midwestern Africa. The borders with Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea Bay are common. After independence in 1960, former French territory of the former Congo became Republic of Congo. In 1990, Marxist experiments of the quarter century were abandoned, and in 1992 a democratically elected government was established. The short civil war in 1997 restored former Marxist president Dennis Sassou - Guesso 's life. The capital city is Brazzaville. Republic of the Congo is one of African oil-rich countries, but its economic potential is hindered by ongoing civil wars.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, coal and crude oil resources are mainly used domestically in 2008. Democratic Republic of Congo has hydroelectric power infrastructure from Congo River in Ingadam. According to the UN's report on the strategic significance of the country and the potential role of the Central African Republic as a major economic power, the Democratic Republic of Congo, which makes up 50% of the African forest, supplies hydraulic power throughout the continent.